SQN2130 Base Station: A flexible solution

WiMAX Forum wave 2 ready base station chip

The first and only WiMAX Forum Certified™ ASIC-based reference design for Mobile WiMAX base stations.

The SQN2130 is the industry's first PHY & MAC ASIC optimized for Mobile WIMAX base stations. It is fully compliant with the IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard, integrating all MAC and PHY features required for WiMAX Forum Wave 2 certification and is delivered with S3MAX, Sequans' comprehensive and flexible software package.

Highlights

  • WiMAX Forum™ Wave 2 ready
  • 2X2 MIMO
  • TDD and FDD
  • Flexible and cost effective for any size base stations
  • Low cost for femto base stations with no compromise on features
  • Standard interfaces to ASN gateway
  • High throughput >35 Mbps
  • Supports hybrid ARQ category 4

Applications

The SQN2130 is a low cost, high performance solution with the flexibility to allow manufacturers to build an entire range of WiMAX base stations, from access points to pico/micro base stations, to multi-sector macro base stations for fixed/nomadic and mobile applications.

Key benefits

  • Flexible, total solution
    SQN2130 is a highly integrated, MAC & PHY baseband solution. The combination of small size, low-cost, and low-power consumption, provides maximum flexibility to build any size base station with no compromise on features, in TDD or FDD duplexing mode. The SQN 2130 interfaces with a range of RF solutions from Sequans RF partners, delivering low power RFIC solutions for femto and pico base stations, to high power remote RF heads with an OBSAI interface. SQN2130 based products are easily integrated into existing deployed networks via standard interfaces to ASN gateways.
  • Low cost, low power for compact base stations and picocells
    The SQN2130's level of integration and built-in dynamic power optimization techniques are ideal for base stations with strong constraints on cost, power consumption, and footprint. A low cost host/ network processor could be used to run S3MAX, Sequans' software package together with the customer's applications.
  • High throughput, large number of users
    The SQN2130 can support several thousand subscriber stations and operates at the full line rate even with small packet sizes, translating to throughput of more than 35 Mbps. In addition to advanced MIMO, the SQN2130 supports hybrid-ARQ Category 4.
  • Full-featured MAC layer
    Sequans' extremely efficient MAC implementation is strategically partitioned between hardware and software to maximize throughput and reduce power onsumption. Complete support for mobility is provided, in particular for handover, sleep mode, and idle mode.

Quick path to certification

Sequans early participation and involvement in all WiMAX Forum PlugFests and certification activities, and its close technical partnerships with the major PCT and RCT test equipment vendors, provides system vendors significant advantages in certification and time to market.

Reference designs

Sequans provides the SQN 2130-RD, a complete reference design based on SQN2130. It includes the RF boards with drivers, a PowerPC mezzanine card, memory, power supply, and Ethernet PHY, as well as the MAC software modules and a user-friendly documentation. Sequans also provides an integrated reference design for a compact base station featuring PMC-Sierra's PM8800 WiZIRD™ 2 Tx /2 Rx RF IC.